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Want to Migrate to Cloud? Here's What You Need to Know

Want to migrate to the cloud? Learn from our experience – read this blog with strategies to avoid cloud migration mistakes first.
How to & Use Cases
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Software Development Life Cycle: Day 1 Best Practices

Get smarter about Day 1 of the software development life cycle with strategies that will help you succeed.
DevOps, Ecosystems & Integrations
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Configuration Drift: How It Happens, Top Sources + How to Stop It for Good

Configuration drift is going to happen no matter what you do. It’s very easy to miss, caused by some innocuous mistake or patch and buried in paper trails that don’t exist. By the time you’ve found which configurations have drifted, it usually means something’s already going wrong. But here’s the good news: You and your precious configurations don’t have to take it lying down.
Configuration Management, Security & Compliance
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What is Continuous Delivery? The Benefits of a Well-Tuned Continuous Delivery Software Pipeline

What is continuous delivery? Explore the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline and how it supports software delivery.
DevOps, Products & Services
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Policy as Code Tools & Examples to Make Better Infrastructure Easier, Anywhere

Policy as code is an infrastructure management approach where you write policies as code so they can be enforced at scale. In this blog for sysadmins and IT ops managers, we’ll share a few PaC tools, examples, use cases, and compare PaC to infrastructure as code (IaC).
Configuration Management, Infrastructure Automation
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Day 0 Configuration: Building Long Term Success Beyond Server Provisioning

Build a strong server provisioning foundation from Day 0 configuration and beyond — we can help you start with a strategy for long term success.
DevOps
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Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance: How SecOps Can Stay Ready + Pass Your Next SOX Audit

With high scrutiny and heavy penalties for failing a SOX audit, SOX compliance is a must for publicly traded US companies. Read our blog for the highlights, how IT helps pass a SOX audit + how to stay compliant year-round.
Security & Compliance
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IT Operations: Making IT Work Better with IT Ops Automation

IT operations is responsible for day-to-day IT maintenance, optimization + IT strategy. In this blog, find out what IT operations teams actually do, how they contribute to better work across an organization, and why IT ops automation is essential for better, scalable IT.
DevOps, Glossary
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Agent vs. Agentless Security: How Do They Stack Up for Secure Infrastructure Automation?

In today’s multi-cloud reality, we at Puppet see that perspectives about agent-based security, agentless security, and agent vs. agentless have changed as security needs have grown in complexity and urgency. Given the changes fact that different architecture models and supporting infrastructure (private & public cloud), the same viewpoint about the best way to keep a business secure is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution.
Security & Compliance, DevOps
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How to Learn Puppet the Easy Way — From Beginners to Advanced Practitioners

Exploring how to learn Puppet? Check out our training offerings and weigh the pros and cons of each to meet your learning needs.
Announcements & Events
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Security Automation Tools: SIEM, SOAR, IAM, Configuration Management + More Tools to Ensure IT Security

Security automation tools can make your IT strategy fireproof by taking manual work out of your team’s hands. In this blog, we’ll explain how out how security automation tools can handle some of the biggest day-to-day challenges for enterprises, like security and compliance.
Security & Compliance, Infrastructure Automation
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The Future of Configuration Management Software is Policy Enforcement

The old way we’ve thought about configuration management software has passed — we need a new perspective that takes into account the importance of policy enforcement. Let’s dig deeper into what this means for DevOps, your overall security and compliance strategy, and IT.